Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Various texts are photographed so that groups of words appear clearly in a faint background on the printed page, and these groups of words are moved along sufficiently rapidly to exercise the subject's eyes. Successively larger phrases in different firms are provided for reading in different grades...
Crimson basketball title hopes, already faint after Tuesday's beating at the hands of Columbia, grew even smaller with the news that forward Charley Lutz will not accompany the team today when it entrains for Princeton...
Last October 28 a German astronomer, Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg, noticed a faint white streak against the dark background of an astronomical photograph. A similar streak was discovered on a plate exposed at Johannesburg in South Africa. Such streaks reveal small, comparatively nearby objects moving across the sky at high speeds as contrasted with the relatively fixed positions of the stars. This wanderer, christened "Object Reinmuth 1937 U. B.," appeared to be several miles in diameter.* Its orbit was calculated from the streaks. Last week, after all danger was past, Johannesburg astronomers announced that in October the earth...
...author's abilities should at least keep pace with his public's have had their calculations upset by Author Masters' post-Spoon River performances. Thirty-two generally humdrum volumes of prose and verse have poured from his pen into the literary ocean, and have disappeared with faint gurgles barely audible to the public at large. But the sense of Poet Masters' potential ability lingers on; and to a loyal band of U. S. readers every new Masters book comes bound in hope as well as boards...
...STORY OF LOWRY MAEX-Padraic Colum-Macmillan ($1.90). Epic broth from the marrowless bones of prehistoric Irish people (transition from Bronze to Iron Age). Harmless, charming, faint...